Word: confesser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...officials of the Pentagon. Scheer, who works for the Los Angeles Times, is one of those reporters who can get even the most experienced and cautious public officials to make the most unguarded and self-damaging disclosures, particularly when they are running for President. He got Jimmy Carter to confess lust in his heart in 1976, in Playboy, no less. Scheer induced Reagan, whom he interviewed in 1980, and others now in the Administration to talk with a degree of candor matched only by their imprudence and, sometimes, ignorance...
...bill" is casting himself as Ebenezer Scrooge. Or so believe many Representatives and Senators who are scrambling to push supposed job-creating measures through the lameduck session of Congress that is scheduled to end this week, while simultaneously growling to themselves the equivalent of "bah, humbug!" A startling number confess to the deepest skepticism that any of the bills would actually create a significant number of jobs any time soon...
...course, Julie's attraction is more than reciprocated, though as long as Michael has his wig and makeup on, his is the love that dares not speak its name. It is his conflict, between the need to keep his identity secret and his compulsion to confess it and try to claim his true love, that moves the comedy to the knockabout level...
...tumbled from 13.5% in 1980 to around 5.5% this year, a reduction faster than even the President dared to predict as recently as February 1981. Many economists think that primary credit should go to the tight-money policy of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. But Fed officials freely confess they could not have carried out that policy without Reagan's support...
...Benjamin Evett as a surprisingly young and hip friar Lawrence, who appears to function essentially as Romeo's freshman proctor. (In one of the show's nicest and most economical touches. Romeo, visiting Lawrence's cell grabs a Coke from the fridge before settling down on the bed to confess.) Rauch occasionally requires this thoroughly alert crew to do something odd--kill one another with picnic cutlery, for instance, or mutely clutch miscellaneous blankets and bedding around their shoulders in mourning for Juliet's initial "death." But the cast tends to rise to even the most arbitrary occasion, and delivers...